Events

Friday, November 1

The Immigrant Families Advocacy Project (IFAP) in conjunction with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), and the University of Washington School of Law invite you to participate in a Continuing Legal Education program on providing advocacy to immigrant survivors of domestic violence. 4.25 CLE Credits (includes .75 Ethics Credit) are approved.

Wednesday, November 6

Law, Business and Entrepreneurship is hosting a lunch for all faculty and students. Professor Tom Andrews will speak on “Professional Responsibility Issues in Representing Businesses”
RSVPs are encouraged but not required; lunch for first twenty five students. The lunch will be held at 12:30pm in Room 207.

William H. Gates Hall12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Tuesday, November 12

Former SEC Commissioner & Brooklyn Law School Professor Roberta Karmel will lecture on: “Will Law Firms Go Public?”
Lecture and Discussion Open to All Faculty and Students, Tuesday November 12th, Room 127, 12:30 pm.
Lunch for 25 provided to those who RSVP.

Thursday, November 14

Law, Business and Entrepreneurship is hosting a lunch for all faculty and students. Lunches will feature an overview of LBE’s goals for the business law curriculum at UW, and discussion of the law school's wonderful resources, and the goal of helping students prepare for careers in the interface of law, business and governance. The lunch will be held at 12:30pm in Room 207.

The UW Black Law Student Association is proud to present Law School 101: An Inside Look. This year's event will give pre-law students the opportunity to gain helpful insight into the realities of law school-- from admissions and financial aid to student life.
Admissions Directors from UW and UC Hastings will kick the event off with helpful information about admissions and financial aid. Then, a student panel comprised of current law students will give you the opportunity to ask any and all questions you might have about law school life. Join us this week and find out everything you need to know before pursuing a JD!
3-4pm: Admissions & Financial Aid overview
4-5pm: Student Panel and Q&A Session

Roger L. Shidler Lecture Series

Professor Jane Ginsburg

From Hypatia to Victor
Hugo to Larry & Sergey:
All the World’s Knowledge and Universal Authors’ Rights

Access to ‘all the world’s
knowledge’ is an ancient aspiration; a less venerable, but equally vigorous,
universalism strives for the borderless protection of authors’ rights. Late
19th-century law and politics brought us copyright universalism; 21st-century
technology may bring us the universal digital library, delivering ‘all the
world’s knowledge’ to users anywhere in the world. But how can the copyrights of
those works remain enforceable?

About the Roger L. Shidler
Lecture Series

The Shidler Lecture Series
is named after Roger L. Shidler (UW Law class of 1924), a founder of the law
firm Shidler, McBroom, Gates & Lucas (now K&L Gates). Through the years,
the firm grew to become one of Seattle’s most vibrant and influential law
practices. To celebrate Roger Shidler’s legacy, this series brings
outstanding academics, judges and practicing lawyers to UW Law to discuss
leading issues in intellectual property law, an ever-more important economic
driver for our region and the global economy.

Friday, November 15

The National Bureau of Asian Research, in partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the University of Washington School of Law, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program, and the Severyns-Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics, will host a conference on “Contending Perspectives on the Rule of Law in China” on Friday, November 15, 2013, on the campus of the University of Washington.

Monday, November 18

Rebecca Sive will lead a discussion based on her new book Every Day is Election Day: A Woman’s Guide to Winning Any Office from the PTA to the White House.
In it she shares insight in to the success of women who have led, run and won including: Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Judge Ilana Rovner, the first female member of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
The panelists will focus on the experience of women in leadership positions on our own campus and community and how they have flourished within them.William H. Gates Hall3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

In 2006, a challenge to the NSA warrantless surveillance program was filed by an Islamic charity in southern Oregon, the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation. A ruling by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker holding the government liable, and awarding over $2.5 million in damages and attorney fees, was ultimately overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, finding that the government was immune from suit under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Procedural defenses – state secrets privilege, sovereign immunity, qualified immunity, lack of standing – have repeatedly been used to insulate the government from suits challenging some of the government’s most egregious programs from warrantless surveillance to rendition to the use of drones to detentions at Guantanamo Bay. What viable strategies can be used to allow challenges to such programs to proceed?